Letter from the LP Watergate headquarters in DC, signed by national chair Bill Redpath:

Posted by Brian Miller at Delaware Libertarian

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Posted at Delaware Libertarian by Brian Miller. Excerpt:
As the LNC continues to lurch towards collapse, with the latest news of mass layoffs at HQ, I’ve decided to begin tracking those things leading the national party to irrelevance, even as state and local parties gain power. As news, rumors and rhetoric break out, I shall chronicle [...]

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Press release posted at LP.org
Party Says Obama Following Missteps of Bush Administration
America’s largest third-party is accusing Barack Obama of pursuing the same “hawkish” foreign policy of his predecessor George Bush. “What we hoped to see with the incoming Obama administration were plans for a total withdrawal from Afghanistan and Iraq,” says William Redpath, national [...]

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From the desk of George Phillies:
LNC was given facts in advance showing that their substitution lawsuit is invalid.
It’s in the following email, which was leaked to me some time ago by a number of LNC members disgusted with ongoing proceedings.
The core issue is that the LNC lawsuit affects to advance the claim that the LPNH [...]

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From the desk of George Phillies
December 5th — I flew off to San Diego to listen to the Libertarian National Committee meeting.
A long description follows. If you have the impression they did almost nothing at great expense, well, I agree with you. However, the LNC goes through over a million a year of [...]

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Following up on Sean Haugh’s article, Sexual Harassment at National? (discussed at IPR: Libertarian Party employee Sean Haugh: ‘Open season on women’ as long as Bill Redpath is LP national chair; Libertarian Party Transparency Caucus debate), Liberty For All has been publishing a number of followup articles.
In Sexual harassment at National: What to do [...]

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Posted at the Melting Pot Project by Joe Tauke:
Many moons ago, I wrote a little post about the difference between the textures of Ron Paul and Bob Barr. The lovely, apparently sleepless folks over at Independent Political Report mentioned my highly scientific analysis, and a flurry of comments ensued - most of them, like everything [...]

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The poll is at
http://www.lp.org/poll/should-more-troops-be-sent-to-afghanistan.
The LNC resolution which “calls on the government of the United States to withdraw the armed forces of the United States from Afghanistan, without undue delay”, is at http://www.lp.org/news/press-releases/lnc-passes-afghanistan-resolution:
At the September meeting of the Libertarian National Committee, the following resolution was passed:
WHEREAS the government of the United States should return to [...]

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George Donnelly writes at LPTC.org

I have received the following feedback from this.
- Several new members.
- A couple terse emails from LNC Rep Dan Karlan, who claims that the third paragraph of the resolution is “flatly wrong”.
- A thank you from LNC Alt Rep Jake Porter.
- The following email from LNC Rep Mark Hinkle (which contradicts [...]

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An LNC member who has asked to remain anonymous explains,

There is no “policy” (on what is included in the LNC binder which committee members and interested members of the gallery receive at LNC meetings), or at least not a policy that is followed fairly.
******* sent The Libertarian Temperament versus the Anarchist Temperament [...]

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Forwarded by an anonymous source. These have not been approved by the committee, and there are likely to be revisions.
They were made available in two formats: 1. Word document:
lnc-2008-12-06-san-diego
2: HTML file.

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The following resolution was considered and rejected by the LNC in San Diego. During the live reporting of the event, the question came up from at least one of our readers what the resolution under discussion was, and I incorrectly determined that what was being discussed was another document that we had already previously posted [...]

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.PDF file
Libertarian Party HQ staff reports distributed at LNC meeting in San Diego
Great thanks to a source who wishes to remain anonymous.

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Region 5 N (Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont) alternate alternate Hardy Macia resigned prior to the San Diego meeting.
At Large Representative Angela Keaton resigned December 8. An up/down vote is currently being held on the candidacy of Alicia Mattson to fill the vacancy over the closed LNC email [...]

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Posted at the LP Transparency Caucus website.
Whereas the LP Transparency Caucus has been founded in the hopes of fostering a cohesive Libertarian Party where members of all factions can participate knowing that decisions are made in the sunshine - not the dark - by fostering greater openness and accountability in the running of the [...]

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